{"id":70090,"date":"2025-04-28T17:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vni.com\/blog\/?p=70090"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:28:33","slug":"monday-28th-april-2025-asia-pacific-markets-mixed-as-investors-weigh-chinas-stimulus-measures-and-u-s-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/monday-28th-april-2025-asia-pacific-markets-mixed-as-investors-weigh-chinas-stimulus-measures-and-u-s-trade-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 28th April 2025: Asia-Pacific Markets Mixed as Investors Weigh China\u2019s Stimulus Measures and U.S. Trade Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br \/>Global Markets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&nbsp;Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.35%, Shanghai Composite down 0.19%, Hang Seng down 0.02% ASX up 0.36%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3292.35 (-0.19%), Silver at $32.8 (-0.49%), Brent Oil at $65.98 (0.15%), WTI Oil at $63.30 (0.19%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.267, UK 10-year yield at 4.5320, Germany 10-year yield at 2.4921<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News &amp; Data:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(CAD) Core Retail Sales m\/m&nbsp; 0.5%&nbsp; to -0.1%&nbsp; expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(CAD) Retail Sales m\/m&nbsp; -0.4%&nbsp; to -0.4%&nbsp; expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets showed mixed movements on Monday as investors evaluated China&#8217;s latest economic support measures and ongoing trade discussions between the U.S. and regional countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China&#8217;s finance minister, Lan Fo&#8217;an, announced that Beijing would implement more proactive macroeconomic policies to meet its annual growth targets and contribute to global economic stability, according to a translated statement from the ministry\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the markets, Mainland China&#8217;s CSI 300 index remained flat toward the session&#8217;s end, while Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng Index rose 0.36% amid volatile trading. India&#8217;s Nifty 50 climbed 1.18%, and the BSE Sensex gained 1.08%. Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 added 0.38% to close at 35,839.99, while the broader Topix index advanced 0.86% to 2,650.61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In South Korea, the Kospi inched up 0.1% to 2,548.86, but the small-cap Kosdaq declined 1.41% to 719.41. Australia&#8217;s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 also ended higher, up 0.36% at 7,997.10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investors continue to monitor U.S.-Asia trade relations after reports suggested that President Donald Trump may resume imposing &#8220;reciprocal tariffs,&#8221; signaling a tougher stance in upcoming negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, U.S. futures slightly dipped ahead of a heavy earnings week. Despite this, Wall Street closed last Friday with gains, marking two positive weeks out of three. The S&amp;P 500 rose 0.74% to 5,525.21, the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.26% to 17,282.94, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up by 20 points, or 0.05%, to finish at 40,113.50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Events:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; CAD Federal Election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asia-Pacific markets showed mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":71231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,215,339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamental-analysis","category-market-analysis","category-recent-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70095,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70090\/revisions\/70095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}